A person starts to live when he can live outside himself

16 JUNE – I See you in School Uniform

16 June 2014, I see you in school uniform,Is this all with good intentionsOr are you just caught up and trying to fit in.Trying not to be seen as a misfitA chance to flaunt which model-C school you went to.Most of all are you doing it to honor some of the fallen heroesThose who fought against apartheid domination through education.

Today we proudly wear school uniform,Proudly carry cooler-boxes filled to the brim.Holding expensive imported spirit drinks.Come tomorrow, all of this will be forgotten.A splitting headache will cut my sleep short.

No one can enforce or dictate how we should celebrate the past and its achievements.But in honor of those we mention in this celebration.And most whose names we have come to forgetThe countless activists whose names are never mentioned.I hope we could actively take the fight forwardUnlike use this day as another excuse for social meetings.Just another holiday in a year,Just another opportunity to indulge in alcohol until the early hours.

June 16, Next time I see you in school uniformWe will proudly celebrate the stolen livesSome of us will have completed our matricHaving completed a couple of short coursesMost will be graduates from universities all around the worldThis would prove the uprising was not in vain.But that the youth of 1976 fought for better educationFought for us to attend any schoolFought for us to be taught in any languageFought for us to be progressive

June 16, Next time I see you in school uniformLet it be remembered that it was all for the right to be educatedThe right to be taught with prideThe right to free and competitive education